Buckley Barlow
Founder, In The Know. Growth Advisor, Investor
Learning Path Summary and Commentary:
The How to Use Conversion Optimization to Drive Incremental Growth learning path is designed to get you in the know as to what Conversion Optimization is and the best practices of optimizing the user experience in order to drive more sales. In short, conversion optimization is the systematic process of figuring out how to increase a desired action—new user signups, retention, visits, and so on. This iterative testing, ultimately, should result in revenue growth.
Buckley Barlow
Founder, In The Know. Growth Advisor, Investor
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Develop a Successful Conversion Optimization Strategy with Chris Goward
Google Analytics Tricks for Conversion Rate Optimization
Blog Posts
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The Beginner’s Guide to Conversion Rate Optimization, Qualaroo
The Beginner’s Guide to Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) is an in-depth tutorial designed to help you convert more passive website visitors into active users that engage with your content or purchase your products.
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How to Create a Growth Marketing Framework To Grow Your Business, Buckley Barlow
If you’ve been following along with the blog, you’ve learned about the various puzzle pieces that go into creating a digital growth marketing machine. In this post, I want to help you take all of those individual pieces — all those modern marketing tools, strategies, and tactics — and distill them down into a single growth framework to grow your business systematically, efficiently, and powerfully.
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100 Conversion Optimization Case Studies, Zach Bulygo
If you’re a marketer, you’re undoubtedly looking for techniques to optimize your website for better conversions. Fellow marketers have released tactics that worked from them. In this post, I’ve curated some of these. They’ve come from multiple sources and been placed in one post. I present to you 100 conversion optimization case studies!(i.e.company-centric).
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Introducing: The 9 experimentation principles
At Conversion.com, our team and our clients know first-hand the impact experimentation can have. But we also see all too often the simple mistakes, misconceptions and misinterpretations organisations make that limit the impact, effectiveness and adoption of experimentation.
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Ryan Levesque, Ask : The counterintuitive online formula to discover exactly what your customers want to buy…create a mass of raving fans…and take any business to the next level
Ask is based on the compelling premise that you should NEVER have to guess what your prospects and customers are thinking. The Ask Formula revealed in this book has been used to help build multi-million dollar businesses in 23 different industries, generating over $100 million dollars in sales in the process.?
Chris Goward, You Should Test That: Conversion Optimization for More Leads, Sales and Profit or The Art and Science of Optimized Marketing
Part science and part art, conversion optimization is designed to turn visitors into customers. Carefully developed testing procedures are necessary to help you fine-tune images, headlines, navigation, colors, buttons, and every other element, creating a website that encourages visitors to take the action you seek. This book guides you through creating an optimization strategy that supports your business goals, using appropriate analytics tools, generating quality testing ideas, running online experiments, and making the adjustments that work.
Chip Heath, Dan Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick, accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath tackle head-on these vexing questions. Inside, the brothers Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the “human scale principle,” using the “Velcro Theory of Memory,” and creating “curiosity gaps.”
Online Courses & Workshops
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Learn How to Use Landing Pages For Higher Converting Campaigns
In this 11-part course landing page expert Oli Gardner and 10 renowned conversion rate optimization experts (including Rand Fishkin, Peep Laja, Michael Aagaard, Copyblogger, Hubspot and more), will walk you through how to create high-converting landing pages. The course includes step-by-step instructional videos so you can follow along, creating your own landing pages as you go.
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A/B Testing the Easy Way, Jared Waxman
This course teaches you an intuitive and novel way to setup and analyze a/b tests on your website so that you can come to the correct conclusions. Don’t be one of the many people who just starts running tests without a clear understanding of how to set it up and analyze correctly. You will save yourself hours of arguing and months (or even years) of making decisions based on misinterpretations of what the data is telling you.
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Conversion Rate Optimization Fundamentals, Chris Goward
I travel and speak a lot about marketing optimization. And people often ask me, what should I be doing to help my website sell more? They’ve probably seen one of the many blog posts or ebooks, with lists of tips and tricks to follow. The problem is the underlying assumption that there are so-called best practices that every website should follow. But in my thousands of A/B tests on hundreds of websites, I’ve proven that most of them just don’t work. There is no big list of tips and tricks you should follow But there are winning strategies and methods that the leading websites are using today.
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Growth Marketing Conference
Learn no-nonsense, battle-tested growth marketing strategies and tactics from thought leaders who’ve actually worked in the trenches of big brands like Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, & Eventbrite.
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Velocity 2016
Most companies with outward-facing dynamic websites face the same challenges: pages must load quickly, infrastructure must scale efficiently, and sites and services must be reliable, without burning out the team or breaking the budget. Velocity is the best place on the planet for web ops and performance professionals like you to learn from your peers, exchange ideas with experts, and share best practices and lessons learned.
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Tools & Platforms
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CONVERTKIT
I have used a handful, okay, maybe two handfuls of email marketing and automation tools over my career and bar none, ConvertKit is by far the easiest and most intuitive email marketing and automation platform on the market. I recently switched to ConvertKit and I have been delighted at every turn–and I think you will be too! I’m a big proponent of segmenting your users based on interests and this platform makes a difficult process darn right easy.
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SNIP.LY
If you thought that this was only a content curation tool made for social media, you’d be way wrong. This tool helps you share other people’s content and then use a Call-To-Action to bring them back to you. One of my favorite pull marketing tools. Listen here to learn more from the Founder!
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HOTJAR
From heatmaps to user polling, this tool is the Swiss army knife of marketing tools. The code is easy to install and they have a nice freemium version to get you started.
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LEAD PAGES
You need a landing page or an opt-in box? You need LeadPages. Reasonably priced, crazy easy to use, and so much added value. Fantastic reporting capabilities, all the data you could possibly want. I could go on, but you really should have clicked over by now. Every minute you’re not a LeadPages member, I really feel like you’re losing opportunities to gain users.
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BLUEHOST
Bluehost offers feature-rich affordable web hosting with 1-click WordPress integration. It’s ideal for first-time site builders, in part because it offers amazing customer service and tools that make it simple for first-time users to quickly understand how to do things. I use it myself – and I’m a happy customer. Their customer support is AWESOME!
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GOOGLE ANALYTICS
Web analytics service that tracks and reports website traffic. Totally free, and you have to use it, because Google made it, and it’s incredibly useful and all your competitors are using it.
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